Justices Get Hi and Mitey Over Superior Spelling Abilities

So the Fourth District just tackled a case in which they try to figure out if some guy was really a vexatious litigant hiding behind some half-assed disguise. They determined that yes, he almost certainly was, and Footnote 2 lets us readers inside one of their “aha!” moments en route to that conclusion:

"Like something out of a mystery story where the person whodunit alters a letter already written by the deceased, this Yuki Kobayashi has, apparently with aid of photocopier and good word processing skills, contrived his request to look like a judicial council form entitled: 'Request and Order to File New Litigation by Wrongfull Accused of Vexatious Litigant.' Such a form is obviously not the one put out by the Judicial Council. One of the giveaways is that the Judicial Council form writers certainly know better than to describe a person 'wrongfully accused' of being a vexatious litigant merely as 'Wrongfull Accused.' Another giveaway is the spelling of this division as the 'tird division.' We in the judicial system aren’t perfect, but we -- and especially the Judicial Council -- usually manage to avoid typos in prepared forms."

As if that weren't enough of a roadmap on how to fool the courts better next time, the opinion (.pdf) also unveils what lengths the Judicial Council doesn't go to now in order to outsmart fakers. The courts do compare the address of the "new" plaintiff with the address on file for the vexatious litigant of the same name. But on the off chance that is not foolproof, Footnote 4 suggests the JC start using photos and social security numbers.